.62 Caliber. 7.5" pinned two-stage barrels with baluster turned rings at the transitions. NSN. Blued finish, gilt decorations, silver and iron mountings, European hardwood stocks. Single shot muzzleloading flintlock smoothbore officer's pistols. 4.14" flat lockplates with pronounced teats at rear, lightly engraved at tails and engraved Jean Seuts forward of the cock. Locks remain in original flint with fenced, faceted detachable bridled iron pans. Cocks are of the flat faceted swan neck pattern, with one cock screw replaced and one top jaw and screw replaced. Barrels are decorated with a large engraved panel scene featuring panoplies of arms and are enhanced with gold gilt. The blade front sights include gilt highlights around them as well. The pistols features cast silver sideplates with flowing floral motifs and panoplies of arms and two-piece cast silver butt caps with long, thing langets. The chiseled decorations on the butts include floral and martial motifs with the caps featuring a crescent, suggesting the guns may have been made for the Middle Eastern market. Decorative silver thumb pieces are present on the backstraps as well. Stocks with raised Rococo floral carvings behind the breechplug tang and foward of the triggerguard and with more simple raised carved aprons around the lock mortise. Incised lines are neatly executed along the lower portion of the forend. Horn tipped wooden ramrods with flat metal disc faces are secured by a pair of silver pipes. Jean Seuts (more likely "Seux") was working in St. Etienne circa 1783 (Stockel).